VUMC People

April 2, 2025

Charlene Dewey honored by the American Medical Women’s Association

Dewey holds joint appointments in the Department of Medical Education and Administration, now the Office of Health Sciences Education, and the Department of Medicine Division of General Internal Medicine and Public Health.

By Jill Clendening

April 1, 2025

Eric Wallace named first vice chair of Community Radiology at VUMC

He is the first vice chair appointed to the Division of Community Radiology, which has grown rapidly since it was established in 2023

By Jackson Hicks

April 1, 2025

VUMC mourns loss of noted philanthropist Henry Rodes Hart Sr.

He and his wife, Patricia Ingram Hart, who died in 2022, endowed multiple chairs across the School of Medicine and Peabody College of Education and Human Development.

By Bill Snyder

Jeffrey Johns, MD. (photo by Susan Urmy)

March 28, 2025

Jeffery Johns elected chair of American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Johns is the medical director of Vanderbilt Stallworth Rehabilitation Hospital and the executive medical director of the Rehabilitation and Pain Medicine Patient Care Center at VUMC.

By Matt Batcheldor

March 28, 2025

VUMC’s Wesley Ely recognized by the American Thoracic Society

An internist, pulmonologist and critical care physician, Ely has focused on critically ill patients who suffer from delirium and who are at risk for long-term cognitive, functional and neuropsychological impairments.

By Bill Snyder

March 27, 2025

Nicole Werner named director of the Center for Research and Innovation in Systems Safety

CRISS uses a wide range of human factors and systems engineering, cognitive psychology, biomedical informatics and implementation science techniques to study performance during patient care.